Portfolio Procurement has been engaged by our leading London based retail client to recruit for a Retail Store Design Category Manager on an initial 12 month contract.

The role:

The Category Manager will be responsible for sourcing and cost reduction with a specific focus on Store Design and permanent fixtures.

Duties:

• Responsibility for development and delivery of the Store Design sourcing strategy, working with regional leads to deliver a category plan in agreement with the Global Procurement Director.
• Spend Mapping of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy, including ''deep dive'' analysis of spend within the category across all geographic regions.
• Taking a lead role in working with stakeholders to develop a local sourcing plan and project roadmap.
• Project managing regular supplier cost initiative meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as Supplier Relationship Management at a regional level.
• New supplier sourcing and tendering programs with development and monitoring of full 12-month sourcing pipeline.

Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience and expertise supporting new store openings.
• Previous Indirect Procurement experience would be an added bonus.
• Must have developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews.
• Must be conversant with and developed strong tender briefs within large value complex projects.
• Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
• Sound legal contract knowledge and experience

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.